I may have unintentionally misquoted the salesman here- after I had paid for everything, I all of a sudden had a Beavis and Butthead flash and realized I didn't ask the salesman whether or not the Denon DVD player played DVD-A & so when I asked him he said they didn't. I then was contemplating buying another DVD player & about the only one under $250 that played DVD-A was a Panasonic. The salesman advised me for the best sound on a denon receiver, I should stick to a Denon DVD player. Given that, DVD-A isn't all that important to me, I figured I'll stick to this & as it was only about $125 with the sales discount, if I ever replaced it I wouldn't lose any sleep. So my appologies, if I didn't explain this clear enough.

I started to attach my full bedroom set of 5 Orbs to the Denon and I started setting it up a bit, for which I confess II'm not 100% sure if I did this right. As I live in an apartment building, its too late now to hear the system on the speakers. I did listen to a CD via a headphone and also played the same CD through my JVC receiver via my headphone & I didn't notice much difference, if anything my JVC was warmer. Hopefully, this doesn't mean anything as the only thing that counts is if the sound will be significantly better hearing them on the speakers. I hate to say this, and everyone is just disregarding this as it sounds like I'm brain dead, but I'm beginning to think the JVC player for my tastes produces a better sound with Orb speakers than any other expensive receiver set up. If in fact that is true, the only thing I can attribute to that is that the owners/creators of Orb, specifically recommended for the best sound of Orb speakers to use the JVC RX-31DSL DVD receiver & maybe they knew what they were talking about. I'll try to get a more objective view when I listen to things in the morning & have both the Denon & JVC cued up to play the same CD album (albeit they're both CDR's of "Rubber Soul" for uniformity). Even then, if I don't notice much difference, my statement will be qualified as perhaps I need to tweak the Denon's settings like I did the JVC.



Quote Originally Posted by drseid
Quite frankly, why not just buy one of those AR Toshlink cables that go for about $15 at Best Buy....? I say that because you get higher quality construction than the cheapy Toshlink cables that frequently come with DVD players... Sound quality will be the same on all of them, quite frankly.

BTW, as for your salesperson's comment about all the components should be the same, as that provides optimal sound quality...? That is total BS, I am afraid. That said, as Denon makes some of the best DVD players out there, in this case it looks like the "advice" may pay off, but it won't be beacause of any special "advantage." the only advantage is just that Denon makes good products. :-)

---Dave